Detail View: NASA Planetary Photo Journal Collection: Opportunity Dips in to "Berry Bowl

Title: 
Opportunity Dips in to "Berry Bowl
Original Caption Released with Image: 
Figure 1 Scientists are hunting down the recipe for the "blueberries" they've discovered on Mars. Taken with the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity's front hazard-avoidance camera on the 45th martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission (March 10, 2004), this image shows the area dubbed "Berry Bowl," where many dark and mysterious spherules or "blueberries" collected in a depression on the surface of a rock. Opportunity is studying the blueberries for clues to their chemical composition with its suite of scientific instruments. 'Berry Bowl' is located within the rock outcrop that lines the inner edge of the crater where the rover landed.
Image Credit: 
NASA/JPL
Produced By: 
JPL
Mission: 
Mars Exploration Rover (MER)
Spacecraft: 
Opportunity
Target Name: 
Mars
Is a satellite of: 
Sol (our sun)
Instrument: 
Hazard Identification Camera
Product Size: 
1024 samples x 1024 lines
facet_what: 
Crater
facet_where: 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
facet_when: 
March 10, 2004
facet_when_year: 
2004
Image #: 
PIA05563
UID: 
SPD-PHOTJ-PIA05563
original url: 
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05563